Use-after-free vulnerability in the abstract file...
Moderate severity
Unreviewed
Published
May 2, 2022
to the GitHub Advisory Database
•
Updated Feb 11, 2024
Description
Published by the National Vulnerability Database
Mar 5, 2010
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database
May 2, 2022
Last updated
Feb 11, 2024
Use-after-free vulnerability in the abstract file-descriptor handling interface in the cupsdDoSelect function in scheduler/select.c in the scheduler in cupsd in CUPS before 1.4.4, when kqueue or epoll is used, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon crash or hang) via a client disconnection during listing of a large number of print jobs, related to improperly maintaining a reference count. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2009-3553.
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